职业分布比较
📝 题目
The charts below show the percentage of people aged 23-65 in different occupations in one UK town (Ashby) and in the UK as a whole in 2008.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
✍️ 参考范文
The two pie charts compare the distribution of 23-to-65-year-olds across different employment categories in Ashby, a UK town, and for the entire UK, in 2008.
Overall, personal service was the most common occupation in Ashby, while office work was the largest employment sector nationwide. In addition, there were notable differences in the share of people in personal service and office work between the town and the whole country.
In detail, 21% of residents aged 23-65 in Ashby worked in personal service, nearly three times the national average of 8%. Technical work was also more prevalent in Ashby, accounting for 9% of the town's working-age population compared to only 5% across the UK. Unemployment was slightly higher in Ashby at 14%, against 10% nationally.
By contrast, office work was the biggest job category in the UK at 24%, 6 percentage points higher than in Ashby. Construction and professional jobs were also more common nationwide: 23% and 17% respectively, compared to 16% and 8% in Ashby. Finally, the share of people working in shops was almost identical, at 14% in Ashby and 13% across the UK.